An early implementation assessment of Ontario's Healthy Kids Community Challenge: results from a survey of key stakeholders.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:In Ontario Canada, the Healthy Kids Community Challenge (HKCC) is a program intended to reduce the prevalence and prevent childhood overweight and obesity through community-based initiatives to improve health behaviours. Guided by the RE-AIM framework and Durlak and DuPre's Ecological Framework for Understanding Effective Implementation, the evaluation focused on two objectives: 1) to describe the organization of the program at the community level; and, 2) to identify opportunities for improvement through an early assessment of factors contributing to implementation. METHODS:Participants (n = 320) - members of the HKCC local steering committee, including the local project manager - completed a cross-sectional survey using SurveyMonkey and descriptive statistics were calculated.

SUBMITTER: Vine MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6880511 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature